The Nador Film and Common Memory Festival announces its grand return for its 13th edition from November 5 to 10, 2024. On the program of this cinematographic event, three official competitions, tributes, international round tables and other parallel activities.
There are 29 works from different countries in the running for the 13th edition of the Nador International Festival of Cinema and Common Memory (FICMEC), scheduled for November 5 to 10, 2024. On the menu, 8 documentary films, 7 feature-length fiction films and 14 short films. According to the organizers, the jury for documentary films will be chaired by the Spanish academic and writer Rosa Amor del Olmo, that of feature-length fiction films by the French journalist and critic Barbara Lorey de Lacharrière, while the presidency of the jury for short fiction films will be entrusted to Fadoua Maroub, founder of the Association of Mediterranean Meetings of Cinema and Human Rights (ARMCDH).
Beyond the official competitions, the festival will also see the screening of films dealing with national themes as part of the preparations for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Green March. “This new edition will be placed under the theme “The memory of heaven and earth”. It will bear the name of the late Leila Meziane Benjelloun, honorary president of the festival for the last four years. The name of the late Mustafa Salama, one of the great patrons of the festival since its creation, will be given to the grand prize for short fiction films,” add the initiators. In addition, the festival offers two international round tables.
Thus, the first will focus on “Parallel diplomacy in the era of artificial intelligence: art and culture at the crossroads”. It will see the participation of politicians from different countries, including those from Latin America, diplomats, academics, artists, human rights activists and civil society, Moroccan and foreign. As for the second, it will focus on climate justice, in which the winner of the international prize “Memory for Democracy and Peace”, experts in the field of the environment from Morocco and abroad, the directors of the documentary films selected for the official competition of the festival as well as the president and members of the jury of documentary films will participate.
That’s not all, the festival will also be an opportunity to present the international prize “Memory for Democracy and Peace” to a national or international personality with a clear imprint in the field of climate justice and who fights against the impacts of drought and natural disasters. “This prize, which has been awarded for eight years by the center of common memory for democracy and peace, was presented in person to several world-renowned personalities.
Due to the importance of the prize, the winner will be announced in a special press release and will receive the trophy during a grand ceremony to be held on the sidelines of the opening of the festival.
The festival also plans other parallel activities, such as training workshops for local youth on film careers, tributes to local, national and international personalities as well as screenings of films on the themes of the environment, drought and natural disasters for the benefit of learners from local schools.
